Friday, April 3

Free Guide to Free Streams Around The World

Noon CET: Staatsoper unter den Linden. Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie Rameau. Conductor: Simon Rattle, director: Aletta Collins, with Anna Prohaska, Reinoud Van Mechelen, Magdalena Kožená, Elsa Dreisig, Gyula Orendt, Staatsopernchor, Staatskapelle Berlin. Available free for 24 hours.

7 pm CET: Vienna Staatsoper streams Mozart’s La Le Nozze di Figaro(performance of November 25, 2014). Conductor: Sascha Goetzel, director: Jean-Louis Martinoty, with Luca Pisaroni (Conte d’Almaviva), Olga Bezsmertna (Contessa d’Almaviva), Anita Hartig (Susanna), Adam Plachetka (Figaro), Rachel Frenkel (Cherubino). Sign up for free and view here.

7 pm CET: Lucerne Festival streams “World Class on the Water: 75 Years of Lucerne Festival”: a documentary film by Béla Batthyany (2013). Register free and available here for 24 hours.

Soprano Angel Blue interviewing Christine Goerke last week on Faithful Friday with Angel Blue

12 pm ET: Faithful Friday with Angel Blue. The acclaimed American soprano presents a new topical talk show web series broadcast live every Friday on Facebook and Instagram. For Episode #3 she will be joined by Italian fashion and Instagram favorite Sandra Violante, who has been in lock-down in Milan for several weeks.

1:30 pm ET: The Kanneh-Mason Family
“The Von Trapps of Classical Music” (Telegraph UK) will be going live via cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s Facebook every Wednesday and Friday at 1:30 pm ET. This will be a mixture of intimate chamber performances with the family, and behind the scenes chat. You can watch their first live here.

2 pm ET: The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden streams Handel’s Acis and Galatea(Production from 2009). Christopher Hogwood conducts the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and a distinguished cast including Danielle de Niese and Charles Workman in Wayne McGregor’s production – a rare and beautifully crafted collaboration between The Royal Opera and The Royal Ballet. View here.

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles. Conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, starring Diana Damrau, Matthew Polenzani, and Mariusz Kwiecien. Transmitted live January 16, 2016. Go to www.metopera.org on the day. From the MA archives, Les Pêcheurs de Perles Is Back in NY.

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Free Guide to Free Streams Around The World